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In this video, political science instructor Barbara Howe introduces new students or reminds old ones of how to analyze an argument. After all, election season is upon us and there is no shortage of arguments out there, good and bad, to be analyzed! So grab your earbuds and your notepad for some quick tips on how to identify the key parts of an argument –the first step in analysis.

You can find more of Barbara Howe’s instructional videos on international relations and political science theories on her YouTube channel.

This video introduces INR2002 (Intro to International Relations) students to two key concepts in international security: national security and human security. In this video political science instructor Barbara Howe shows how critical theories have reshaped security studies in international relations by questioning some of the assumptions of traditional theories such as realism and liberalism (both considered to be rationalist approaches in political science).

You can find more of Barbara Howe’s instructional videos on international relations and political science theories on her YouTube channel.

I’m happy to announce I am teaching a new special topics course at USF this fall that is an advanced political theory class for poli-sci majors. It’s called POT 4936: Democracy and Propaganda. The course covers political philosophy from the ancient period to our own time. We’re reading Plato and Hannah Arendt, along with Jason Stanley and Sophia Rosenfeld. The subject matter is about how our ideas about epistemology (how we know what we know) affect what kinds of political systems we live under. Or in other words, what is the relationship between truth and politics. It’s a very timely course and a challenging one. I’m very excited to be teaching it.